Hand Book on Aquafarming: Seafishes Oceanic Cage culture

Abstract

Sea farming of several species of fin fishes is becoming very
popular. Countries like China, Thailand and Japan are culturing
several varieties of fin fi shes in floating net cages set up in
the sea and India is yet to make a beginning in this direction.
It is possible to make use of shallow inshore waters along the
main land and sheltered bays in Lakshadweep, Andaman and
Nicobar Islands to set up cage culture of some of the species
of fin fishes such as sea bass, sea bream and grouper . Therefore,
the organising Committee of "INDAQUA' - the first Aquaculture
Show in India decided to bring out this handbook on far- '
ming of sea fishes. Dr.P. Bensam, CMFRI and Shri P. Vasudevan,
Lakshadweep Silpi Aquaculture Ltd., Cochin have put up
a lot of effort to bring out this handbook and I express my
warm appreciation to them. The work done by Dr. G. Santhana
Krishnan and Mr. M. Viswakumar in publishing this handbook
is acknowledged. The generous contribution made by SCICJ to
print this handbook is deeply acknowledged. I am sure that
this handbook will be a useful reference to entrepreneurs in
seafarming .